Word: combate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jangling field telephone. "Good morning," he says cheerily. "This is World War II." He couldn't be more mistaken. This is World War II as it seems, 13 years after the bloody fact, to a corps of Hollywood professionals who have unquestionably seen more scenes of combat in movie houses than in any actual theater of war. The big push in this picture, even though it is carefully filled out with official military footage, smells unmistakably of the klieg lamp, and the episodes on the home front, for all the respect they show to the times, might as well...
...agreed "in principle" to the stationing of intermediate range U.S. missiles in Europe, but not a single missile base has been established anywhere on the Continent. NATO's minimum military ambition-a 30-division shield force in Western Europe-remains unachieved. West Germany, which promised to contribute twelve combat-ready divisions by the end of 1959, has only seven in being, will probably take four years to assemble the rest...
...needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
...with snatches of preliminary air strikes and landings. There is the expectant, esthetic hush as the carrier task forces rendezvous west of the Marianas. Finally, the downbeat of H-hour sends the landing craft streaking toward the beaches of Leyte and the full tympanic rumble and brassy glare of combat...
...consideration is that most concentrators will have completed course requirements, not counting the thesis, by the beginning of their Senior year. Since distribution requirements are technically waived in History and Literature, it is very easy to fall into the over-specialization which the General Education program is supposed to combat. The other possibility is to do nothing within the field except write a thesis, thus making the last year an anti-climax rather than a culmination...